Alias, Season 2

I got through Alias, Season 2. Like a lot of shows that last about five seasons, the second season is where it got really popular.My notes —It’s darker. Sydney is less of an innocent this time around, and some very bad things happen to people.Sydney’s mother plays very large in this season. She’s played by Swedish actress Lena Olin, which is a stroke of genius because she and Jennifer Garner absolutely look like mother and daughter. Her loyalties are very much up in the air. The big arc of the season is how she regains Sydney’s trust, then loses it, but maybe just temporarily?The plot “resets” halfway through the season by getting rid of the whole SD-6/Alliance angle. In the second half of the season, everyone is working directly for the CIA, and Sloane is the main bad guy. This is good, because the old plot was getting confusing and a little silly.The Rambaldi plotline continues. A lot is made of Sloane’s lifelong obsession with Rimbaldi and his mania at “finishing” his work. Things…

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